takde la. only cw do sr71 diecast so get info from here lor... Century Wings SR71

i was wondering apasal missile pylons so bare... until i scrolled to the last pic. excellent model, this... and excellent photography also (although first pic focus a bit off)!

i know exactly what you mean... cw especially!

ini punya bro...



anyway, unless you're the red baron, no right minded wing commander is gonna be caught out in red paint schemes la. this is one of the rare ones... and only because they're used for training.

p.s. just realised this is the exact same jet that cw's design is based on.

This post has been edited by WingNut: Jul 23 2014, 02:41 PM

how's the eurofighter? was telling comrade blu3hamm3r that ww's rmaf mig29 nose cone looks wrong. i don't have the model but it's based on my observation of actual photos. strange though... the ww slovakia af mig29 which i have looks ok. shouldn't they be using the same mould?

a small tribute to the people holding their heads up high and keeping that smile on their face despite the circumstances every single day since the disappearance of flight mh370 and downing of flight mh17. a model of b777-200 furthest right...

four, if you include this: South Pacific Plane Crash

jdk, all witty wings. mostly from ebay seller modelarena. so far dealing with this seller has been very positive. don't have to wait too long for your jets to land and they do have a reasonable selection of jets. do let me know if you do get the rmaf or any other mig29s. for some strange reason, i find from actual pics of the model jets that the nose cones do not seem to replicate the actual droopy nose of the migs... and seem to be linear like the american jets. mebbe it's just me but shouldn't the nose cone antennas be pointed slightly downwards rather than straight ahead?

This post has been edited by WingNut: Jul 30 2014, 02:40 PM

wiki lists 32 (as per the list). i think all retired already...

"the plane was permanently retired in 1998. the air force quickly disposed of its SR-71s, leaving nasa with the two last airworthy blackbirds until 1999. all other blackbirds have been moved to museums except for the two SR-71s and a few D-21 drones retained by the nasa dryden flight research center." - wikipedia

if you saw comrade blu3hamm3r's collection, the trainers are the ones with nasa... 61-7956 (17956) and 61-7980 (831).

This post has been edited by WingNut: Aug 1 2014, 12:05 PM

you may need more... one of the cw's twelve sr-71 is in fact a yf-12c:

sr-71 black bird usaf 60-6937 nasa yf-12c 1975



and by the way, there are three different releases for srw 61-7960

sr-71 usaf 9th srw 61-7960 1978 kadena ab
sr-71a blackbird usaf 9th srw 61-7960 1986 50th anniversary
sr-71a blackbird usaf 9th srw 61-7960 1986 50th anniversary signed edition




This post has been edited by WingNut: Jul 31 2014, 04:50 PM

bro, what's that black oblong mark below the tail fin?

my very first century wings received yesterday. awesome details but not without some niggling issues. not sure whether those issues are model specific or cw's recent poor qc. definitely disappointing for a model that costs this much. will include more on those issues later.

correct! correct! correct!

phew! i thot is oil/glue residue...

ot: your nikon really sharp. what lens u using? f2?

This post has been edited by WingNut: Aug 1 2014, 12:22 PM

note 2? sharp indeed!

back to topic... my cw grim reapers had the following issues:

1. loose canopy (turns out cw didn't glue the windshield down properly);
2. no green hue on windshield;
3. tight wings (cannot fully sweep backwards);
4. loose fitting missiles (but that seems to be a problem with all diecast models... with the exception of my ww's f15s).

but like i said... detailing is awesome. just that for that price, i would've expected better. oh well... now i know.

impressive!

VMFA(AW)-224 Fighting Bengals

This post has been edited by WingNut: Aug 5 2014, 01:37 PM

my first hobby masters...







first impression: far simpler assembly than witty wings, but they don't make f/a-18e/f super hornets (or f-14 tomcats, for that matter). personally, i much prefer witty wings detailing, although the assembly for the f/a-18s can be a bit of a pain with the miniscule parts. i tend to agree with the gurus in terms of ranking... 1. century wings; 2. witty wings; 3. hobby master (they do seem relatively lighter too! ). thinking of getting a forces of valor model to see how it stacks up against the likes of cw, ww and hm...

This post has been edited by WingNut: Aug 6 2014, 10:40 AM

awesome collection! and to think this only your side collection

lemme know if you ever lose interest in this hobby

...and i think the emoticon should be at the end of the word "crazy" rather than at the beginning of the sentence.

This post has been edited by WingNut: Aug 7 2014, 12:12 PM

baru sampai... ww vf154 black knights: